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Director, Digital Strategic Communications
- Job Title
- Director, Digital Strategic Communications
- Job ID
- 27660215
- Location
- London,
- Other Location
- Description
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Position Overview: Director, Digital Strategic Communications
Directors are the backbone of our teams, leading the development and implementation of our client strategies on a day-to-day basis and managing junior team members. Directors working with a digital focus will have the opportunity to build their capabilities as strategic advisors working collaboratively with a group of experts within a flat organizational structure and across a number of high-stakes, event-driven matters. Directors with a digital and insights focused portfolio are excellent project managers, skilled writers, and have experience overseeing research, content development and new business, engaging directly with our clients’ core stakeholder groups. Directors help Dentons Global Advisors (DGA) develop our approach, whilst working on critical, global issues for our clients.
In this role, you will:
- Provide critical digital strategic communications and insights expertise across the whole agency to ensure we are building a truly integrated firm.
- Advise companies in highly regulated industries on high-stakes, event-driven financial and corporate positioning matters including but not limited to, crisis communications, litigation communications, transaction advisory, restructuring and leadership transitions
- Play a key role in developing our digital strategic communications offering more broadly and with a lateral focus
- Turn ‘big picture’ strategies for managing complex engagements into actionable communications plans
- Serve as a primary day-to-day client contact on sensitive matters
- Serve as a primary project manager and oversee junior team’s work product on simultaneous engagements that are complex and multijurisdictional
- Work as part of a team to engage directly with external stakeholder audiences, including the media
- Work to minimize and/or prevent negative exposure for our clients with the aim of protecting their reputation, enterprise value and permission to operate
- Run firm development initiatives
- Mentor and manage junior team members’ career development
- Help lead, maintain and grow new client relationships
- Promote a culture of collaboration Take ownership of all aspects of the DGA offer, looking for opportunities to develop it through working entrepreneurially and closely with colleagues
- Be intellectually curious, eager to learn from coworkers and excited to teach new skills to the team
- Have a team-first mindset, always looking for ways to improve your coworkers’ lives, including managing client requests in an efficient manner that enables your teams to succeed inside and outside of work
- Drive diversity, equity and inclusion by actively creating a supportive and engaging work environment for the team
- Provide feedback to junior team members’ work product in a manner that builds their skills and motivates them
- Be a problem solver who is comfortable operating independently and seeking counsel at the appropriate time
- Consistently display excellent project management and organizational skills
- Manage the delivery of large suites of documentation, being accountable for consistency and quality of other team members’ work
- Display an understanding of financial markets and the ability to oversee development of client-ready research
- Be comfortable in a start-up environment
- Understand confidentiality and act with integrity at all times
- Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent and relevant work experience
- 6+ years of experience in a strategic communications role, from an agency or in-house, or the capabilities of someone of that level of experience Strong working knowledge of digital platforms and new emerging technologies, with an entrepreneurial mindset to developing new ways of working
- Experience managing research projects and using digital analytical tools, as well as working closely with a range of specialist partners to deliver work on time and on budget
- Significant experience across earned, owned and paid media, preferably in the event-driven communications, crisis communications, M&A, litigation, and/or restructuring spaces
- Experience being part of a team that counsels senior management teams and engages with lawyers on the communications process
- Excellent writer with strong attention to detail
- Highly collaborative working style
Please note: Applicants must include a cover letter along with their resume.
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